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Salt Lake City TribuneThere’s something in the way she airbrushes the BeatlesWest Valley City » The brush never touched the canvas.

And yet, the eyes of John Lennon twinkled to life inside a West Valley City warehouse, animated by an invisible stream of paint-rich air and the hand of a woman recognized as the world’s greatest Beatles artist.Shannon MacDonald, an internationally acclaimed airbrush painter from New Jersey, chose the Beehive State to begin her portrait of Lennon, which will be mounted with a collage of the Fab Four this month in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where the Beatles made their debut.Her work will be unveiled during the International Beatle Week celebration on Aug. 30 in Liverpool.But the Lennon portrait began to take shape a continent away within an airbrush studio replete with images of open-winged dragons, skull-headed pilots swooping in biplanes and even a fiery rendition of rock ’n’ roll Elvis Presley on nontraditional canvases ranging from snowboards to tabletops to car doors.